smelling bottle

noun

A bottle for smelling salts.

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Meanings

nounsmelling bottle (plural smelling bottles)

plural smelling bottles

  1. A bottle for smelling salts.

    Consent then Madam to their union & as a reward, this smelling Bottle which I enclose in my right hand, shall be yours & yours forever; I never will claim it again.

    [1787–1790], [Jane Austen], “Frederic & Elfrida: a novel”, in Volume the First, chapter IV, page 16
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    [A]ll the spectators could easily perceive her perturbation, which manifested itself in frequent palpitations, heart-heavings, and alterations of countenance, in spite of the assistance of a smelling-bottle which she incessantly applied to her nostrils.

    1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “smelling bottle,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/smelling%20bottle.

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